[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 5): selected network security enhancements for Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 26 15:03:02 CET 2014

On Mar 26, 2014, at 10:00 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Guido and Antoine persuaded me that selective backports would be a better idea for the network security enhancements than the wholesale module backports previously suggested, while Alex and Donald provided the necessary additional details, so here's a revised version of the PEP. Despite making it more explicit, I deleted more lines than I added, strongly suggesting that switching to selective backports was the right call :)

Thanks. I think the narrower scope and details greatly improves this PEP and resolves most of the concerns I had about it. It maintains the backward compatibility pledge but relaxes the new feature backport prohibition where security concerns trump.

Cheers, -Barry

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